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Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Ficino and prefaces added to his work published at this time." "The letters cover topics from friendship to healthy living and from the ancient philosophical tradition to biblical scholarship and medicine; there is discussion of the influence of the stars on human life, recommendations for reading books related to the Platonic tradition and reflections on the art of good writing and speaking." --Book Jacket.

Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Ficino and prefaces added to his work published at this time." "The letters cover topics from friendship to healthy living and from the ancient philosophical tradition to biblical scholarship and medicine; there is discussion of the influence of the stars on human life, recommendations for reading books related to the Platonic tradition and reflections on the art of good writing and speaking." --Book Jacket.

Book Meditations on the Soul

Download or read book Meditations on the Soul written by Marsilio Ficino and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems that taxed the minds of people during the Renaissance were much the same as those confronting us today. In their perplexity, many deep-thinking people sought the advice of Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, a magnet for the most brilliant scholars of 15th-century Europe. In devoting his life to the study and translation of the great dialogues of Plato and the Neoplatonists, Ficino and his colleagues were midwives to the birth of the modern world. Ficino was fearless in expressing what he knew to be true. Covering the widest range of topics, his letters offer a profound glimpse into the soul of the Renaissance.

Book Marsilio Ficino

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael J. B. Allen
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789004118553
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Marsilio Ficino written by Michael J. B. Allen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism. They cast fascinating new light on his theology, philosophy, and psychology as well as on his influence and sources.

Book Plato s Persona

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  • Author : Denis J.-J. Robichaud
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2018-01-08
  • ISBN : 0812294726
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Plato s Persona written by Denis J.-J. Robichaud and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to the entire range of the dialogues, which revealed to Renaissance audiences the rich ancient landscape of myths, allegories, philosophical arguments, etymologies, fragments of poetry, other works of philosophy, aspects of ancient pagan religious practices, concepts of mathematics and natural philosophy, and the dialogic nature of the Platonic corpus's interlocutors. By and large, Renaissance readers in the Latin West encountered Plato's text through Ficino's translations and interpretation. In Plato's Persona, Denis J.-J. Robichaud provides the first synthetic study of Ficino's interpretation of the Platonic corpus. Robichaud analyzes Plato's works in their original Greek and in Ficino's Latin translations, as well as Ficino's non-Platonic writings and correspondence, in the process uncovering new aspects of Ficino's intellectual work habits. In his letters and works, Ficino self-consciously imitated a Platonic style of prose, in effect devising a persona for himself as a Platonic philosopher. Plato's dialogues are populated with a wealth of literary characters with whom Plato interacts and against whom Plato refines his own philosophies. Reading through Ficino's translations, Robichaud finds that the Renaissance philosopher seeks an understanding of Plato's persona(e) among all the dialogues' interlocutors. In effect, Ficino assumed the role of Plato's Latin spokesperson in the Renaissance. Plato's Persona is grounded in an extensive study of scholarship in Renaissance humanism, classics, philosophy, and intellectual history, and contextualizes Ficino's intellectual achievements within the contemporary Christian orthodox view of Platonism. Ficino was an influential figure in the early Italian Renaissance: the key intermediary between Greek and Latin, and between manuscript and print, giving voice to Plato and access to the ancient frameworks needed to interpret his dialogues.

Book Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book Marsilio Ficino written by Angela Voss and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2006-12-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy introduction, editor Angela Voss puts Ficino’s achievement in context as a complete re-visioning of traditional astrological practice and the beginning of a humanistic and psychological approach that prefigured contemporary holistic approaches to astrology as therapy.

Book Platonic Theology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marsilio Ficino
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780674017191
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Platonic Theology written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by Marsilius Ficinus and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Things Natural

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  • Author : Marsilio Ficino
  • Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
  • Release : 2010-08-01
  • ISBN : 0856833592
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book All Things Natural written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Shepheard-Walwyn. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsilio Ficino, a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin, examines Plato’s Timaeus, the most widely influential and hotly debated of the Platonic writings. Offering a probable account of the creation and nature of the cosmos, the discussion incorporates such questions as What is the function of arithmetic and geometry in the design of creation? What is the nature of mind, soul, matter, and time? and What is our place in the universe? To his main commentary Ficino adds an appendix, which amplifies and elucidates Plato’s meanings and reveals fascinating details about Ficino himself.

Book Gardens of Philosophy

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  • Author : Arthur Farndell
  • Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
  • Release : 2006-09-01
  • ISBN : 0856833657
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Gardens of Philosophy written by Arthur Farndell and published by Shepheard-Walwyn. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the patronage of the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino translated into Latin and commentated on the meaning and implications of key works by Plato—including 25 of Plato’s dialogues and 12 letters ascribed to the philosopher. The 40 concise articles in this collection comprise the first English translation of Ficino’s works and provide an insightful glimpse into the philosophy that contributed to the Renaissance.

Book Letters to Friends

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  • Author : Bartolommeo Fonte
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-31
  • ISBN : 0674058364
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Letters to Friends written by Bartolommeo Fonte and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl.

Book Laus Platonici Philosophi

Download or read book Laus Platonici Philosophi written by Stephen Clucas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2004 at Birkbeck College.

Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino written by Marsilius Ficinus and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evermore Shall be So

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  • Author : Marsilio Ficino
  • Publisher : Commentaries by Ficino on Plat
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Evermore Shall be So written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Commentaries by Ficino on Plat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Having translated the works of Plato and the major Neo-Platonists from Greek into Latin, Ficino was in a unique position to provide commentaries on Plato's dialogues, explaining the substance of the dialogue in the context of the whole corpus of Platonic thought and Renaissance Florence." "To Ficino, however, philosophy was much more than an intellectual exercise. As a canon of Florence Cathedral, he recognised the spiritual significance of Plato's dialogues, of which Parmenides is perhaps the most profound, dealing as it does with the ultimate reality and how the individual soul may ascend to the presence of the eternal One." "The reader is invited to join the translator in ascending from the plains of everyday living, up through the hills of ever loftier considerations, rising to the majestic peaks of Ideas, transcending being itself, and eventually entering into the presence of the One."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino   Being a translation of Liber 3

Download or read book The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Being a translation of Liber 3 written by Marsilio Ficino and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentaries on Plato  Phaedrus and Ion

Download or read book Commentaries on Plato Phaedrus and Ion written by Marsilio Ficino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.